Ast Monologue from The Little Stone House

From The Little Stone House by George Calderon

male · contemplative · 1:06 min

Oh, Fomá Ilyitch is a chemist; he can tell you what fire is made of. Fomá. So you have been all the way to St. Pantaléimon's in the Marsh? Oh, piety, thy name is Praskóvya Petróvna! Not a person can hold the most miserably little service in the remotest corner of the town but you smell it out and go to it. (Var: It is a Christian deed, Fomá Ilyitch.) Now I can get at the ace. Var. (to Praskóvya). I must get your supper. (She gets a plate of meat from a cupboard.) Fomá. And on All Souls' Day she brought home holy water in a bottle and sprinkled the rooms of all the lodgers. The schoolmaster was very angry. You spotted the cover of his Greek Lexicon. He says it is a pagan custom, come down to us from the ancient Scythians.

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